“The object is to build a structure so that when you drop your egg from our first floor balcony, it survives,” Brooks says. “So you start with a hundred points, and each supply you use deducts from your points. And if your egg ‘drops’ you get zero points. We kind of relate it to astronauts, how astronauts, when they want to go out in space, need to be very well protected. Obviously, there’s a lot of engineering involved, as well.”

Despite judicious use of packing materials, most of the eggs end up scrambled.